03/04/2016
Only 4 readings left in the development series! Come down to 14th Street and join us for some amazing FREE theater!
FIRST, DO NO HARM
By J. Thalia Cunningham, MD
Directed by Katrin Hilbe+
Featuring C. K. Allen, Mia Y. Anderson, Magaly Colimon*, Ian Gould*, Verina Kranak and Kate Siepert*
Friday, March 4 @ 7:30pm
Set in the inner realm of hospitals, FIRST, DO NO HARM tells the story of the parallel journeys of two women from very different worlds but both African American. Elissa Kerry, a surgeon with a terminally ill son, and Mattie Clester, whose grandson dies on Elissa's operating table. FIRST, DO NO HARM explores today’s ubiquitous themes of medical ethics, medical error and racial profiling.
CHALK
By Walt McGough
Directed by Dominic D’Andrea
Featuring Catherine Curtin* and Anna O'Donoghue*
Saturday, March 5 @ 5pm
Maggie survived the end of the world, and has enough supplies to last. But now her daughter has come home, and something’s wrong about her. The two women square off, kept apart only by their pasts and a protective chalk circle, hastily drawn on to the floor.
STRANDED ON EARTH
By Eric Coble
Directed by Dominic D’Andrea
Featuring Tasha Lawrence*
Saturday, March 5 @ 8pm
The mysterious tale of Alexa, a brilliant artist torn between the mundane chaos and poetic heights of her job, children, husband, and parents. As she climbs out of personal tragedy, she must answer the question of all questions: Can Art save a life?
LOS SAMARITANOS
By Sandra A. Daley-Sharif
Directed by Norma Medina
Featuring Juan Luis Acevedo*, Raquel Almazan, Cynthia Bastidas*, Randy Holden*, Jose Joaquin Perez*, Mario Tineo, and John Austin Wiggins*
Sunday, March 6 @ 6pm
It's the heat of the immigration crisis. Denver, a Mexican-American man manages a gas station in a conflicted Arizona town. He dreams of changing his luck, heading out to California, and starting a new life with his pregnant wife, Rosa. As Mexicans seek the American dream on foot and bicycle, and good Samaritans offer assistance crossing undocumented migrants along the border, tensions rise high, questioning the price we pay for our dreams.
